The President today nominated Jorge Rangel to serve on the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Texas, Frank C. Damrell
to serve on the United States District Court for the Eastern District
Court of California, Martin J. Jenkins to serve on the United States
District Court for the Northern District Court of California, and
Charles R. Breyer to the Northern District of California.

Rangel, 49, is a native of Alice, Texas, and now lives in Corpus
Christi. He earned his college degree, with honors, from the
University of Houston in 1970 and earned his law degree from Harvard
Law School in 1973. Since then, Rangel has taught law, worked in
private practice, and served on the bench. Rangel was an Assistant
Professor of Law at the University of Houston during the 1975-76
school year. Thereafter, he returned to private practice. In 1983,
Governor Mark White appointed Rangel to a state district court
judgeship, where Rangel presided over civil, criminal and domestic
relations issues. Rangel returned to private practice in 1985; and
he is now a partner in Rangel & Chriss, a three-attorney civil
litigation firm in Corpus Christi, Texas. Specializing in personal
injury, libel and general media litigation, he has a broad and
sophisticated trial and appellate practice.

Damrell, 59, is currently President of the California law firm of
Damrell, Nelson, Schrimp, Pallios & Ladine. He received his college
degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, and his
law degree from Yale University in 1964. After law school, he was a
Deputy Attorney General for the State of California (1964-66), before
becoming Deputy District Attorney for Stanislaus County (1966-68). He
then ran his own law office (1968-70), before joining the firms of
Damrell & Damrell (1970-76) and Damrell, Damrell & Nelson (1976-90).
Since 1990, Damrell has been a partner in the firm of Damrell, Nelson,
Schrimp, Pallios & Ladine.

Jenkins, 43, is a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court. A
native of California, he graduated from Santa Clara University in 1976
and graduated law school from the University of San Francisco in 1980.
After law school, he worked in the Alameda County District Attorney's
Office (1980-83), before working as a trial attorney in the Civil
Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1983-85) and in
Pacific Bell's legal department (1985-89). He became an Oakland,
California municipal court judge in 1989 and an Alameda County judge
in 1992.

Breyer, 55, is currently a partner in the California law firm of
Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer. A native of California, he received
his college degree, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1963 and his
law degree from the University of California, Boalt Hall in 1966.
After law school, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Oliver Carter
of the United States District Court for the Northern District of
California (1966-67), before becoming counsel to the Legal Aid Society
of San Francisco (1967). In 1967, he became an Assistant District
Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco's District
Attorney's Office (1967-73). In succeeding years, he was an Assistant
Special Prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force
(1973-74); an associate and then partner with the law firm of Jacobs,
Sills & Coblentz (1974-79); and Chief Assistant District Attorney for
the City and County of San Francisco's District Attorney's Office
(1979). Breyer has been with Coblentz, Cahen since 1980.